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1. 317 relations: Acquittal, Agnès Callamard, Aleksandr Nikitin (environmentalist), Alexander Bastrykin, Alexander Litvinenko, Alexander Nevzorov, Alexander Temerko, Alexei Navalny, Allegation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Amnesty International, Anastasia Baburova, Andrei Viktorovich Malgin, Andrey Vyshinsky, Anna Politkovskaya, Anti-gay purges in Chechnya, Arkhangelsk, Armenia, Assassination, Associated Press, Authoritarianism, Azerbaijan, Álvaro Gil-Robles, BBC News, BBC News Russian, Beating of Andrey Sychyov, Bellona Foundation, Bolotnaya Square, Boris Berezovsky (businessman), Boris Nemtsov, Boris Yeltsin, Bourgeoisie, Business Solidarity (NGO), BuzzFeed News, Capital punishment in Russia, Censorship in Russia, Chechnya, Children's rights, Christopher Andrew (historian), Cigarette burns, Civil and political rights, Civil Assistance, Civil liberties, Civil union, CNBC, Commissioner for Human Rights, Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Committee to Protect Journalists, Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Constitution of Russia, ... Expand index (267 more) » « Shrink index

Acquittal

In common law jurisdictions, an acquittal means that the prosecution has failed to prove that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the charge presented.

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Agnès Callamard

Agnès Callamard is a French human rights activist who is the Secretary General of Amnesty International.

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Aleksandr Nikitin (environmentalist)

Alexander Konstantinovich Nikitin (Алекса́ндр Константи́нович Ники́тин; born 16 May 1952) is a Russian former submarine officer and nuclear safety inspector turned environmentalist.

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Alexander Bastrykin

Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin (Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Бастры́кин, born August 27, 1953) is a Russian lawyer and official who has served as the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia since 15 January 2011.

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Alexander Litvinenko

Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (30 August 1962 (at WebCite) or 4 December 1962 – 23 November 2006) was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised in tackling organised crime.

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Alexander Nevzorov

Alexander Glebovich (Oleksandr Hlibovych) Nevzorov (Алекса́ндр Гле́бович Невзо́ров; Ukrainian: Олександр Глібович Невзоров; born on 3 August 1958) is a Russian and Ukrainian television journalist, film director and a former member of the Russian State Duma.

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Alexander Temerko

Alexander Viktorovich Temerko (born 9 September 1966) is a Ukrainian businessman in the energy sector, currently a director of the British company Aquind Limited.

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Alexei Navalny

Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny (ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj; 4 June 197616 February 2024) was a Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner.

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Allegation

In law, an allegation is a claim of an unproven fact by a party in a pleading, charge, or defense.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Anastasia Baburova

Anastasia Baburova (translit; translit; 30 November 1983 – 19 January 2009) was a journalist for Novaya Gazeta and a student of journalism at Moscow State University.

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Andrei Viktorovich Malgin

Andrey Viktorovich Malgin (Russian: Андрей Виĸторович Мальгин; born April 20, 1958, USSR, Sevastopol) is a Soviet and Russian journalist, literary critic, publisher, blogger, and entrepreneur.

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Andrey Vyshinsky

Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (Андре́й Януа́рьевич Выши́нский; Andrzej Wyszyński) (– 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat.

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Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian investigative journalist who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005).

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Anti-gay purges in Chechnya

Anti-gay purges in Chechnya, a part of the Russian Federation, have included forced disappearances, secret abductions, imprisonment, torture and extrajudicial killing by authorities targeting persons based on their perceived sexual orientation, primarily gay men.

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Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk (Арха́нгельск), also known as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Armenia

Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.

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Assassination

Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Álvaro Gil-Robles

Álvaro Gil-Robles y Gil-Delgado (born 9 September 1944 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Spanish jurist and human rights activist.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC News Russian

BBC News Russian (BBC News Ру́сская слу́жба) – formerly BBC Russian Service (Ру́сская слу́жба Би-би-си́) – is part of the BBC World Service's foreign language output, one of nearly 40 languages it provides.

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Beating of Andrey Sychyov

On December 31, 2005, four members of the Russian Armed Forces tortured fellow soldier Andrey Sergeyevich Sychyov (Андре́й Серге́евич Сычёв, also transliterated Sychev or Sychov) at the in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

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Bellona Foundation

The Bellona Foundation is an international environmental NGO headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with branches in Europe and North America.

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Bolotnaya Square

Bolotnaya Square (Болотная площадь, Bolotnaya ploshchad) is a square in the center of Moscow, in Yakimanka District, south of the Moscow Kremlin, between the Moskva River (north) and the Vodootvodny Canal (south).

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Boris Berezovsky (businessman)

Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Борис Абрамович Березовский; 23 January 1946 – 23 March 2013), also known as Platon Elenin, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Boris Nemtsov

Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (9 October 195927 February 2015) was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.

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Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин,; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.

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Business Solidarity (NGO)

Business Solidarity (Russian: Бизнес Солидарность) is a Russian NGO, which has received international media coverage for its campaigns against the persecution of businesspeople in Russia, where many such cases have been reported (see Human rights in Russia).

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BuzzFeed News

BuzzFeed News was an American news website published by BuzzFeed beginning in 2011.

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Capital punishment in Russia

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Russia but is not used due to a moratorium and no death sentences or executions have been carried out since 2 August 1996.

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Censorship in Russia

Censorship is controlled by the Government of Russia and by civil society in the Russian Federation, applying to the content and the diffusion of information, printed documents, music, works of art, cinema and photography, radio and television, web sites and portals, and in some cases private correspondence, with the aim of limiting or preventing the dissemination of ideas and information that the Russian state or public opinion consider to be a danger.

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Chechnya

Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia.

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Children's rights

Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.

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Christopher Andrew (historian)

Christopher Maurice Andrew, (born 23 July 1941) is an Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge with an interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services.

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Cigarette burns

Cigarette burns are usually deliberate injuries caused by pressing a lit cigarette or cigar to the skin.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Civil Assistance

Civil Assistance was a British far-right movement in the 1970s, purporting to be a non-governmental civil defence group.

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Civil liberties

Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that governments commit not to abridge, either by constitution, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process.

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Civil union

A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition in law for same-sex couples.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Commissioner for Human Rights

The Commissioner for Human Rights is an independent and impartial non-judicial institution established in 1999 by the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, to promote awareness of and respect for human rights in the council's 46 member states.

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Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (French: Comité des ministres du Conseil de l'Europe) or Committee of Ministers (French: Comité des ministres) is the Council of Europe's decision-making body.

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Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in New York City, with correspondents around the world.

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Communist Party of the Russian Federation

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF; Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii; KPRF) is a communist political party in Russia that officially adheres to Marxist–Leninist philosophy.

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Constitution of Russia

The Constitution of the Russian Federation was adopted by national referendum on 12 December 1993.

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Constitutional Court of Russia

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (Конституционный Суд Российской Федерации) is a high court within the judiciary of Russia which is empowered to rule on whether certain laws or presidential decrees are in fact contrary to the Constitution of Russia.

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Corruption in Russia

Corruption is perceived as a significant problem in Russia, impacting various aspects of life, including the economy, business, public administration, law enforcement, healthcare, and education. Human rights in Russia and Corruption in Russia are politics of Russia.

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Council of Europe

The Council of Europe (CoE; Conseil de l'Europe, CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.

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COVID-19 pandemic in Russia

The COVID-19 pandemic in Russia was a part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

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Crimea

Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.

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Cruelty

Cruelty is the pleasure in inflicting suffering or the inaction towards another's suffering when a clear remedy is readily available.

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Cynthia Elbaum

Cynthia Elbaum (March 19, 1966 – December 22, 1994) was an American photojournalist, killed in Chechnya, where she was working as a freelancer for ''Time'', the BBC, Moscow Times, reporting on the First Chechen War.

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David Kaye (academic)

David Kaye is an American politician who served as the United Nations special rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression between August 2014 and July 2020.

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Dedovshchina

Dedovshchina (lit) is the informal practice of hazing and abuse of junior conscripts historically in the Soviet Armed Forces and today in the Russian Armed Forces, Internal Troops, and to a much lesser extent FSB, Border Guards, as well as in other armed forces and special services of former Soviet Republics.

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Demographics of Russia

As of the 2021 census, the population of Russia was 147.2 million.

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Desertion

Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning.

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Despotism

In political science, despotism (despotismós) is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

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Discrimination

Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.

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Dissident

A dissident is a person who actively challenges an established political or religious system, doctrine, belief, policy, or institution.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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Domestic violence in Russia

Domestic violence is a severe issue in Russia.

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Drug-related crime

A drug-related crime is a crime to possess, manufacture, or distribute drugs classified as having a potential for abuse (such as cocaine, heroin, morphine and amphetamines).

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Duma

A duma (дума) is a Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Echo of Moscow

Echo of Moscow (translit) was a 24/7 commercial Russian radio station based in Moscow.

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Emir-Usein Kuku

Emir-Usein Kemalovich Kuku (born 26 June 1976) is a Crimean Tatar human rights defender and member of the Crimean Human Rights Contact Group.

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Enforced disappearance

An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.

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Espionage

Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence).

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Europe-Asia Studies

Europe-Asia Studies is an academic peer-reviewed journal published 10 times a year by Routledge on behalf of the Institute of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, and continuing (since vol. 45, 1993) the journal Soviet Studies (vols. 1–44, 1949–1992), which was renamed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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European Convention on Human Rights

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe.

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European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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Evan Gershkovich

Evan Gershkovich (born October26, 1991) is an American journalist and reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering Russia.

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Extrajudicial killing

An extrajudicial killing (also known as an extrajudicial execution or an extralegal killing) is the deliberate killing of a person without the lawful authority granted by a judicial proceeding.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Family Code of Russia

The Family Code of Russia (Семейный кодекс Российской Федерации, abbreviated as СК РФ) is the prime source of family law in the Russian Federation.

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Federal Security Service

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.

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Federal subjects of Russia

The federal subjects of Russia, also referred to as the subjects of the Russian Federation (subyekty Rossiyskoy Federatsii) or simply as the subjects of the federation (subyekty federatsii), are the constituent entities of Russia, its top-level political divisions.

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Fergana Valley

The Fergana Valley in Central Asia lies mainly in eastern Uzbekistan, but also extends into southern Kyrgyzstan and northern Tajikistan.

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First Chief Directorate

The First Main Directorate of the Committee for State Security under the USSR council of ministers (PGU KGB) was the organization responsible for foreign operations and intelligence activities by providing for the training and management of covert agents, intelligence collection administration, and the acquisition of foreign and domestic political, scientific and technical intelligence for the Soviet Union.

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Forced prostitution

Forced prostitution, also known as involuntary prostitution or compulsory prostitution, is prostitution or sexual slavery that takes place as a result of coercion by a third party.

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Foreign agent

A foreign agent is any person or entity actively carrying out the interests of a foreign principal while located in another host country, generally outside the protections offered to those working in their official capacity for a diplomatic mission.

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Forum 18

Forum 18 is a Norwegian human rights organization that promotes religious freedom.

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Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) is a multilateral treaty of the Council of Europe aimed at protecting the rights of minorities.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Freedom House

Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.

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Freedom in the World

Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant related and disputed territories around the world.

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Freedom of assembly

Freedom of peaceful assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right or ability of people to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend their collective or shared ideas.

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Freedom of religion in Russia

The issue of Freedom of religion in Russia is complex with a long and fraught history.

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Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.

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Freedom of speech by country

Freedom of speech is the concept of the inherent human right to voice one's opinion publicly without fear of censorship or punishment.

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Front Line Defenders

Front Line Defenders, or The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, is an Irish-based human rights organisation founded in Dublin, Ireland in 2001 to protect those who work non-violently to uphold the human rights of others as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Galina Starovoytova

Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova (Гали́на Васи́льевна Старово́йтова; 17 May 1946 – 20 November 1998) was a Soviet dissident, Russian politician and ethnographer known for her work to protect ethnic minorities and promote democratic reforms in Russia.

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Gangrene

Gangrene is a type of tissue death caused by a lack of blood supply.

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George Soros

George Soros (born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Glasnost Defense Foundation

Glasnost Defense Foundation is a non-profit organization with the stated goals of the defense of journalists, journalism, and freedom of expression in Russia.

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Gleb Yakunin

Gleb Pavlovich Yakunin (Глеб Па́влович Яку́нин; 4 March 1936 – 25 December 2014) was a Russian priest and dissident, who fought for the principle of freedom of conscience in the Soviet Union.

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Government of Russia

The government of Russia (Pravitelstvo Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the federal executive body of state power of the Russian Federation.

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Grigory Pasko

Grigory Mikhailovich Pasko (Григо́рий Миха́йлович Пасько, born 19 May 1962) is a military Russian journalist, convicted traitor, Amnesty International-designated prisoner of conscience, and founding editor of Ecology and Law, an environmental and citizens' rights magazine.

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Gulag

The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union.

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Gulagu.net

Gulagu.net (lit) is a Russian anti-corruption, anti-torture human rights organisation and website.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir

Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT; lit) is an international pan-Islamist and Islamic fundamentalist political organization whose stated aim is the re-establishment of the Islamic caliphate to unite the Muslim community (called ummah) and implement sharia globally.

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Hostage diplomacy

Hostage diplomacy, also hostage-diplomacy, is the taking of hostages for diplomatic purposes.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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Human rights defender

A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights.

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Human rights in Asia

The topic of human rights in Asia is one that encompasses an immense number of states, international governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations.

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Human rights in Europe

Human rights in Europe are generally upheld.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Human trafficking

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation.

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Hybrid regime

A hybrid regime is a type of political system often created as a result of an incomplete democratic transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one (or vice versa).

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Igor Sutyagin

Igor Vyacheslavovich Sutyagin (И́горь Вячесла́вович Сутя́гин; born 17 January 1965) is a Russian arms control and nuclear weapons specialist.

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Imprisonment of Evgeny Afanasyev and Svyatoslav Bobyshev

Evgeny Vasilyevich Afanasyev (1952-2014) and Svyatoslav Bobyshev (b.1953) were professors at the Baltic State Technical University.

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Ingushetia

Ingushetia or Ingushetiya, officially the Republic of Ingushetia, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe.

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InoSMI

inoSMI (иноСМИ, a derivation from "foreign mass media") is an internet media project that monitors and translates articles published in foreign and Western media into Russian, and is part of the state media group Russia Today.

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Intellectual disability

Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States),Rosa's Law, Pub.

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International Christian Concern

International Christian Concern (ICC) is an ecumenical, non-governmental, non-partisan Christian organization, located in Washington, DC, whose concern is the human rights of Christians and religious minorities.

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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty that commits nations to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, electoral rights and rights to due process and a fair trial.

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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (GA) on 16 December 1966 through GA.

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International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War

International sanctions have been imposed against Russia and Crimea during the Russo-Ukrainian War by a large number of countries, including the United States, Canada, the European Union, and international organisations following the Russian annexation of Crimea, which began in late February 2014.

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International Society for Krishna Consciousness

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization.

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Ivan Kolesnikov

Ivan Sergeyevich Kolesnikov (Ива́н Серге́евич Коле́сников; born March 18, 1983) is a Russian film, television, and stage actor.

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Ivan Safronov (1990)

Ivan Ivanovich Safronov (Иван Иванович Сафронов; born 18 May 1990) is a Russian journalist.

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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.

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Jewish Autonomous Oblast

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO; Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast' (YeAO),; ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט|Yidishe avtonome gegnt) is a federal subject of Russia in the far east of the country, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China.

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Jochen Piest

Jochen Piest (1964 in Bad Honnef – 1995 in Tscherwljonnaja) was a German correspondent for the German newsmagazine Stern.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.

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Judiciary of Russia

The Judiciary of Russia interprets and applies the law of Russia.

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KGB

The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.

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Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG) is one of the oldest and most active Ukrainian human rights organizations.

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Kommersant

(Коммерсантъ,, The Businessman or Commerce Man, often shortened to Ъ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business.

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Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai (Krasnodarskiy kray) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and administratively a part of the Southern Federal District.

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Law of Russia

The primary and fundamental statement of laws in the Russian Federation is the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

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Legal guardian

A legal guardian is a person who has been appointed by a court or otherwise has the legal authority (and the corresponding duty) to make decisions relevant to the personal and property interests of another person who is deemed incompetent, called a ward.

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Leonid Nevzlin

Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin (Леони́д Бори́сович Не́взлин; לאוניד בוריסוביץ' נבזלין; born 21 September 1959) is a Russian-born Israeli businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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LGBT rights in Russia

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Russia face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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List of journalists killed in Russia

The dangers to journalists in Russia have been known since the early 1990s but concern over the number of unsolved killings soared after Anna Politkovskaya's murder in Moscow on 7 October 2006. Human rights in Russia and List of journalists killed in Russia are politics of Russia.

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London Review of Books

The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British literary magazine published bimonthly (twice a month) that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews.

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Marital rape

Marital rape or spousal rape is the act of sexual intercourse with one's spouse without the spouse's consent.

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Mariupol theatre airstrike

On 16 March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces bombed the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine.

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Mediazona

Mediazona (Медиазона) is a Russian independent media outlet focused on Anti-Putinist opposition that was founded by Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who are also co-founders of the protest group and band Pussy Riot.

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Meduza

Meduza (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek goddess Medusa) is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia.

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Member of the European Parliament

A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.

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Memorial (society)

Memorial (p) is an international human rights organisation, founded in Russia during the fall of the Soviet Union to study and examine the human rights violations and other crimes committed under Joseph Stalin's reign.

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Meskhetian Turks

Meskhetian Turks, also referred to as Turkish Meskhetians, Ahiska Turks, and Turkish Ahiskans, (მესხეთის თურქები Meskhetis turk'ebi) are a subgroup of ethnic Turkish people formerly inhabiting the Meskheti region of Georgia, along the border with Turkey.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky (Михаил Борисович Ходорковский,; born 26 June 1963), sometimes known by his initials MBK, is an exiled Russian businessman, oligarch, and opposition activist, now residing in London.

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Mikhail Trepashkin

Mikhail Ivanovich Trepashkin (Михаил Иванович Трепашкин; born 7 April 1957) is a Russian attorney and former Federal Security Service (FSB) colonel who was invited by MP Sergei Kovalev to assist in an independent inquiry of the Russian apartment bombings in September 1999 that followed the Dagestan war and were one of the causes of the Second Chechen War.

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Militsiya

Militsiya (mʲɪˈlʲitsɨjə) were the police forces in the Soviet Union until 1991, in several Eastern Bloc countries (1945–1992), and in the non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia (1945–1992).

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Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (MVD; Министерство внутреннихдел, Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del) is the interior ministry of Russia.

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Minority language

A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory.

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Mitrokhin Archive

The Mitrokhin Archive refers to a collection of handwritten notes about secret KGB operations spanning the period between the 1930s and 1980s made by KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin which he shared with the British intelligence in the early 1990s.

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Modus vivendi

Modus vivendi (plural modi vivendi) is a Latin phrase that means "mode of living" or "way of life".

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Moratorium (law)

A moratorium is a delay or suspension of an activity or a law.

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Moscow Helsinki Group

The Moscow Helsinki Group (also known as the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, Московская Хельсинкская группа) was one of Russia's leading human rights organisations.

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Moscow hostage crisis chemical agent

The chemical agent used in the Moscow theatre hostage crisis of 26 October 2002 has never been definitively revealed by the Russian authorities, though many possible identities have been speculated.

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Movement Against Illegal Immigration

The Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI; Движение против нелегальной иммиграции; ДПНИ; Dvizheniye protiv nelegalnoy immigratsii, DPNI) was a Russian far-right and nationalist organization. Human rights in Russia and Movement Against Illegal Immigration are politics of Russia.

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Nadezhda Chaikova

Nadezhda Chaikova (Надежда Чайкова; January 23, 1963 – 1996) was a correspondent for the Russian weekly Obshchaya Gazeta.

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Natalya Estemirova

Natalya Khusainovna Estemirova (Наталья Хусаиновна Эстемирова; 28 February 1958 – 15 July 2009) was a Russian human rights activist and board member of the Russian human rights organization Memorial.

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Natalya Gorbanevskaya

Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya (a; 26 May 1936 – 29 November 2013) was a Russian poet, a translator of Polish literature and a civil-rights activist.

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National Endowment for Democracy

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization in the United States founded in 1983 with the stated aim of advancing democracy worldwide, by promoting political and economic institutions, such as political groups, trade unions, free markets, and business groups.

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Neglect

In the context of caregiving, neglect is a form of abuse where the perpetrator, who is responsible for caring for someone who is unable to care for themselves, fails to do so.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Nikolai Girenko

Nikolai Mikhailovich Girenko (Николай Михайлович Гиренко; 31 October 1940 – 19 June 2004) was a Russian ethnologist and human rights activist.

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Nikolay Andrushchenko

Nikolay Andrushchenko, (September 10, 1943 – April 19, 2017), a Russian journalist for the Novy Peterburg newspaper in St. Petersburg, Russia, died at the Mariinsky Hospital after being beaten.

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Nils Melzer

Nils Joachim Melzer (born 1970) is a Swiss academic, author, and practitioner in the field of international law.

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Nina Yefimova

Nina Yefimova (c. 1971 — May 9, 1996, Russia, Chechnya, Grozny) was a reporter for Vozrozhdeniye ("Revival"), a local Russian language newspaper in the Chechen capital Grozny.

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Novaya Gazeta

(p) is an independent Russian newspaper.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is the principal institution of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) dealing with the "human dimension" of security.

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

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Oleg Gordievsky

Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG (Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский; born 10 October 1938) is a former colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London.

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Oleh Sentsov

Oleh Hennadiiovych Sentsov.

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Olga Kudeshkina

Olga Borisovna Kudeshkina (born 1951) is a Russian former judge of the first qualification class of the Moscow City Court, Candidate of Legal Sciences.

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One-party state

A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a governance structure in which only a single political party controls the ruling system.

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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia.

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Orphan

An orphan (from the orphanós) is a child whose parents have died, are unknown or have permanently abandoned them.

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Oskar Kaibyshev

Oskar Akramovich Kaibyshev (Оскар Акрамович Кайбышев; March 28, 1939 – June 2, 2017) was a Soviet and Russian metal physicist, founder and director of Institute of Metals Superplasticity Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1987-2005), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan and member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, member of the Soviet of Nationalities of 11th Supreme Soviet convocation (1984-1989) from the Bashkir ASSR.

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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

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Paul Klebnikov

Paul Klebnikov (translit; June 3, 1963 – July 9, 2004) was an American journalist and historian of Russia.

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Phone call to Putin

The phone call to Putin (zvonok Putinu) is a slang term used by some Russian police departments for torture method which consists of administering electric shocks to the person's earlobes, nose, and/or genitals.

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Picketing

Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called pickets or picketers) congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place.

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Platon Lebedev

Platon Leonidovich Lebedev (Russian: Плато́н Леони́дович Ле́бедев; born 29 November 1956) is a Russian businessman and former CEO of Group Menatep.

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Police station

A police station (sometimes called a "station house" or just "house") is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of police staff.

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Political demonstration

A political demonstration is an action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause or people partaking in a protest against a cause of concern; it often consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, in order to hear speakers.

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Politics of Russia

The politics of Russia take place in the framework of the federal semi-presidential republic of Russia.

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Polonium

Polonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Po and atomic number 84.

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Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights

The Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights is a consultative body to the President of the Russian Federation, tasked with assisting him in guaranteeing and protecting human rights and freedoms in Russia.

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Prisoner of conscience

A prisoner of conscience (POC) is anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views.

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Prisons in Russia

Prisons in Russia consist of four types of facilities: pre-trial institutions; educative or juvenile colonies; corrective colonies; and prisons.

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Private property

Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities.

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Prosecutor

A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the adversarial system, which is adopted in common law, or inquisitorial system, which is adopted in civil law.

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Psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, or behavioral health hospitals are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, major depressive disorder, and others.

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Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest and performance art group based in Moscow that became popular for its provocative punk rock music which later turned into a more accessible style. Human rights in Russia and Pussy Riot are politics of Russia.

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Putin's Russia

Putin's Russia is a political commentary book by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya about events and life in Russia under Vladimir Putin.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

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Ramzan Kadyrov

Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov (born 5 October 1976) is a Russian politician and current Head of the Chechen Republic.

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Ramzan Mezhidov

Ramzan Mezhidov (1967–1999), was a freelance Chechen cameraman.

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Recognition of same-sex unions in Russia

Russia does not recognize same-sex marriage or civil unions for same-sex couples.

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Religion in Russia

Religion in Russia is diverse, with Orthodox Christianity being the most widely professed faith, but with significant minorities of non-religious people and adherents of other faiths.

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Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders (RWB; Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization focused on safeguarding the right to freedom of information.

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Republic of Karelia

The Republic of Karelia, Karjala or Karelia (Каре́лия, Ка́рьяла; Karjala) is a republic of Russia situated in the northwest of the country.

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Restraining order

A restraining order or protective order, is an order used by a court to protect a person in a situation often involving alleged domestic violence, child abuse, assault, harassment, stalking, or sexual assault.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Right to a fair trial

A fair trial is a trial which is "conducted fairly, justly, and with procedural regularity by an impartial judge".

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Roddy Scott

Roddy Scott (23 February 1971 – 26 September 2002) was an English freelance photojournalist who documented neglected conflicts in such places as Sierra Leone, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ethiopia.

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Roskomnadzor

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, abbreviated as Roskomnadzor (RKN), is the Russian federal executive agency responsible for monitoring, controlling and censoring Russian mass media. Human rights in Russia and Roskomnadzor are politics of Russia.

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Rubén Gallego

Rubén David González Gallego (Рубен Давид Гонсалес Гальего, born 20 September 1968) is a Russian writer of Spanish ancestry.

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Ruble

The ruble or rouble (p) is the currency unit of Belarus and Russia.

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Rule of law

The rule of law is a political ideal that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russia and the United Nations

The Russian Federation succeeded to the Soviet Union's seat, including its permanent membership on the Security Council in the United Nations after the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, which originally co-founded the UN in 1945.

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Russia in the Council of Europe

Russia was a member of the Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, from 1996 to 2022.

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Russian 2022 war censorship laws

On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Articles 31 and 151 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation is a group of federal laws promulgated by the Russian government during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Russian anti-LGBT law

For the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating a Denial of Traditional Family Values, commonly known as the Russian anti-LGBT law or as the Russian anti-gay law, is a law of Russia.

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Russian Armed Forces

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military of Russia.

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Russian foreign agent law

The Russian foreign agent law requires anyone who receives support from outside Russia or is under influence from outside Russia to register and declare themselves as foreign agents.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Russian mafia

The Russian mafia, otherwise referred to as Bratva, is a collective of various organized crime related elements originating in the former Soviet Union (FSU).

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Russian oligarchs

Russian oligarchs (oligarkhi) are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Human rights in Russia and Russian oligarchs are politics of Russia.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.

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Russian Public Opinion Research Center

Russian Public Opinion Research Center (RPORC) (Vserossiyský centr izucheniya obshchestvennogo mneniya - VCIOM) is a state-owned polling institution established in 1987, known as the All-Union Center for the Study of Public Opinion until 1992.

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Russian undesirable organizations law

The Russian undesirable organizations law (officially Federal Law of 23.05.2015 N 129-FZ "On amendments of some legislative acts of the Russian Federation") is a law that was signed by President Vladimir Putin on 23 May 2015 as a follow-up to the 2012 Russian foreign agent law and Dima Yakovlev Law.

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Russian war crimes

Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Russia have been committing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Russian Wikipedia

The Russian Wikipedia (Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia.

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Russian-Chechen Friendship Society

The Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) is a Finland-based non-governmental organization monitoring the human rights situation in Chechnya and other parts of the North Caucasus.

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Russo-Ukrainian War

The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014.

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Second Chechen War

The Second Chechen War is also known as the Second Chechen Campaign (Втора́я чече́нская кампа́ния) or the Second Russian Invasion of Chechnya from the Chechen insurgents' point of view.

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Serbsky Center

The Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry (Госуда́рственный нау́чный центр социа́льной и суде́бной психиатри́и им.) is a psychiatric hospital and Russia's main center of forensic psychiatry.

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Sergei Kovalev

Sergei Adamovich Kovalyov (also spelled Sergey Kovalev; Сергей Адамович Ковалёв; 2 March 1930 – 9 August 2021) was a Russian human rights activist and politician.

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Sergei Magnitsky

Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky (Сергeй Леонидович Магнитский,; Сергій Леонідович Магнітський; 8 April 1972 – 16 November 2009) was a Russian lawyer and tax advisor responsible for exposing corruption and misconduct by Russian government officials while representing client Hermitage Capital Management.

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Sergei Yushenkov

Sergei Nikolayevich Yushenkov (Серге́й Никола́евич Юшенко́в; 27 June 1950 – 17 April 2003) was a liberal Russian politician.

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Server Mustafayev

Server Rustemovych Mustafayev (born 5 May 1986) is a Crimean Tatar human rights defender and coordinator of the civil rights organization Crimean Solidarity.

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Sexual slavery

Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in sexual activities.

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Simferopol

Simferopol, also known as Aqmescit, is the second-largest city on the Crimean Peninsula.

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Sky News

Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.

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Sluggish schizophrenia

Sluggish schizophrenia or slow progressive schizophrenia (translit) was a diagnostic category used in the Soviet Union to describe what was claimed to be a form of schizophrenia characterized by a slowly progressive course; it was diagnosed even in patients who showed no symptoms of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, on the assumption that these symptoms would appear later.

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SOVA Center

The SOVA Center for Information and Analysis is a Moscow-based nongovernmental organization and think tank conducting sociological research primarily on nationalism and racism in post-Soviet Russia.

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Soviet dissidents

--> Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stalker (film festival)

International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (Международный фестиваль фильмов о правахчеловека «Сталкер»), also translated as Stalker: International Film Festival on Human Rights and also known simply as Stalker or Stalker Film Festival, is a film festival held annually in Moscow and regional centres of Russia since 1995.

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Stanislav Markelov

Stanislav Yuryevich Markelov (stənʲɪˈslaf ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mɐrˈkʲeləf; 20 May 1974 – 19 January 2009) was a Russian human rights lawyer.

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State Duma

The State Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia.

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Street children

Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village.

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Stress position

A stress position, also known as a submission position, places the human body in such a way that a great amount of weight is placed on very few muscles.

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Summary execution

In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial.

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Supian Ependiyev

Supian Ependiyev was a veteran correspondent for the independent Chechen weekly Groznensky Rabochy, who was killed while covering a Russian Ground Forces ballistic missile attack on the Chechen capital, Grozny.

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Surrender (military)

Surrender, in military terms, is the relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power.

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Svetlana Prokopyeva

Svetlana Prokopyeva (born 1 October 1979) is a Russian journalist.

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Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is an office-level agency in the federal administration of Switzerland, and a part of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.

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Targeted killing

Targeted killing is a form of assassination carried out by governments outside a judicial procedure or a battlefield.

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Tatyana Moskalkova

Tatyana Nikolayevna Moskalkova (Татья́на Никола́евна Москалькóва; born May 30, 1955, Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR) is a Russian lawyer, teacher, and politician.

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Television in Russia

Television is the most popular medium in Russia, with 74% of the population watching national television channels routinely and 59% routinely watching regional channels.

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Territorial scope of European Convention on Human Rights

This table illustrates the extent to which the substantive provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols are ratified (and therefore in force) for territories under the control of the members of the Council of Europe.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Moscow Times

The Moscow Times is an independent English-language and Russian-language online newspaper.

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The New Times (magazine)

The New Times (Новое Время, tr. Novoe Vremya) is a Russian language magazine in Russia.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thomas Hammarberg

Thomas Hammarberg (born 2 January 1942) is a Swedish diplomat and human rights defender.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Torture

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.

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Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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TsNIIMash-Export espionage trial

The TsNIIMash-Export espionage trial concerned five Russian scientists accused of selling Russian military technology to Chinese spies.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.

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TV Rain

TV Rain (a; stylized as ДО///ДЬ) is an independent Russian-language television channel.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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Union of Councils for Soviet Jews

Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (UCSJ) is a non-governmental organization that reports on the human rights conditions in countries throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia, exposing hate crimes and assisting communities in need.

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Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia

The Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia (Союз Комитетов СолдатскихМатерей России, Soyuz Komitetov Soldatskikh Materey Rossii) is a Russian NGO, with a stated mission of exposing human rights violations within the Russian military.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United Nations Human Rights Council

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.

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Valentin Danilov

Valentin Danilov (Валентин Данилов, born 1948) is a Russian physicist, whose research deals with the effect of solar activity on space satellites.

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Vasili Mitrokhin

Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (Vasily Nikitich Mitrokhin; March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) was an archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, who defected to the United Kingdom in 1992.

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Vil Mirzayanov

Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov (Вил Султанович Мирзаянов, Вил Солтан улы Мирзаҗанов; born 9 March 1935 in Starokangyshevo, Dyurtyulinsky District, Bashkortostan) is a Russian chemist of ethnic Tatar origin who now lives in the United States, best known for revealing secret chemical weapons experimentation in Russia.

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Vitaly Arkhangelsky

Vitaly Dmitrievich Arkhangelsky (born 23 May 1975 in Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a Russian entrepreneur with interests in shipping and insurance.

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Vitit Muntarbhorn

Vitit Muntarbhorn (วิทิต มันตาภรณ์) is an international human rights expert and professor of law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Vladimir Gusinsky

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky (Владимир Александрович Гусинский,; born 6 October 1952) is a Russian media tycoon.

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Vladimir Kazantsev (athlete)

Vladimir Dmitriyevich Kazantsev (Владимир Дмитриевич Казанцев, 6 January 1923 – 22 November 2007) was a Russian long-distance runner who won a silver medal in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 1952 Olympics.

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.

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Vladimir Zhitarenko

Colonel Vladimir Zhitarenko (Владимир Житаренко; June 15, 1942 – January 1, 1995) was a military correspondent for the Russian armed forces daily Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star).

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Vladislav Surkov

Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov (Владислав Юрьевич Сурков; born 21 September 1962 or 1964) is a Russian politician and businessman.

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Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international radio broadcasting state media agency owned by the United States of America.

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Vyacheslav Maltsev

Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich Maltsev (Вячеслав Вячеславович Мальцев; born 7 June 1964) is a Russian politician, three-time member of the Saratov regional Duma (elected in 1994, 1997 and 2002).

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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Weapon of mass destruction

A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people or cause great damage to artificial structures (e.g., buildings), natural structures (e.g., mountains), or the biosphere.

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WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents.

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Xenophobia

Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.

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Yazidis

Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis (translit), are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.

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Yevgenia Albats

Yevgenia Markovna Albats (Евге́ния Ма́рковна Альба́ц, born 5 September 1958, Agentura.ru, referring to another web site., Znamya) is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer and radio host.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.

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Yukos

OJSC "Yukos Oil Company" (ОАО Нефтяна́я Компа́ния Ю́КОС) was an oil and gas company based in Moscow, Russia.

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Yulia Galyamina

Yulia Yevgenyevna Galyamina (Юлия Евгеньевна Галямина, born 23 January 1973) is a Russian linguist and political activist.

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Yulia Tsvetkova

Yulia Vladimirovna Tsvetkova (Russian: Ю́лия Влади́мировна Цветко́ва; born 23 May 1993) is a Russian artist and activist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

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Yuri Budanov

Yuri Dmitrievich Budanov (p; 24 November 196310 June 2011) was a Russian military officer convicted for the kidnapping and murder of Elza Kungayeva in Chechnya.

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Yuri Shchekochikhin

Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin (p; 9 June 1950 – 3 July 2003) was a Soviet and later Russian investigative journalist, writer, and liberal lawmaker in the Russian parliament.

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Zarema Bagavutdinova

Zarema Bagavutdinova (born 1968) was a member of a Dagestan regional human rights group, "Pravozashchita" or "Human Rights Defense." She was imprisoned in July 2013 on charges of recruiting on behalf of an armed Islamic insurgency in the region of Dagestan.

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2006 deportation of Georgians from Russia

The 2006 deportation of Georgians from Russia refers to the deaths, unlawful arrests, expulsions and overall mistreatment of several thousand ethnic Georgians by the Russian government during the 2006 Georgian–Russian espionage controversy.

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2006 ethnic tensions in Kondopoga

On the night of August 29–30, two ethnic Russians were killed and several others badly injured by Chechens in a restaurant in the town of Kondopoga in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.

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2006 Georgian–Russian espionage controversy

The 2006 Georgian–Russian espionage controversy began when the Government of Georgia arrested four Russian officers on charges of espionage, on September 27, 2006.

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2011 Russian legislative election

Legislative elections were held in Russia on 4 December 2011.

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2014 Winter Olympics

The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (Сочи 2014), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

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32nd G8 summit

The 32nd G8 summit was held on 15–17 July 2006 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Russia

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